Christ died for our sins, was buried and was raised

On Easter Sunday, some of us heard St. Paul declare the heart of our Christian faith: “For I handed on to you as of first importance what I in turn had received: that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the scriptures, and that he was buried, and that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the scriptures, and that he appeared to Cephas, then to the twelve.”